Display Modification System for Automatic Quality Adjustment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing display technologies lack consistency and user-friendliness in optimizing image display quality across various devices and content types, as they do not account for specific display capabilities and user preferences, leading to suboptimal viewing experiences due to limitations in manual adjustments and lack of informed settings changes.

Innovation Solution

A system comprising a camera and processing unit that captures images of the display to determine key parameters such as frame rate, brightness, and contrast, allowing for automatic adjustments to enhance display quality by modifying rendering processes or display settings, tailored to specific content and device capabilities.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If manual display settings adjustment is provided, then user control over display parameters is enabled, but the complexity of operation increases and optimal viewing experience is not achieved due to user lack of knowledge about best settings

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of display settings adjustmentVSAvoidaccuracy of display quality optimization
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically analyzes the displayed content and adjusts display parameters without requiring user intervention. The processing device captures images of the display, analyzes content characteristics, and autonomously determines optimal settings, allowing the system to serve itself rather than relying on user knowledge and manual adjustment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements a closed-loop feedback mechanism where the processing device continuously monitors the display output by capturing images, analyzes the displayed content characteristics, and uses this information to automatically adjust display parameters. This feedback loop ensures optimal display quality is maintained dynamically based on actual content being displayed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Measurement precision

If display capabilities are standardized across devices, then consistency in display quality is improved, but the adaptability to different display technologies and individual device characteristics is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconsistency of display qualityVSAvoidadaptability to different display devices
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system tailors display parameters specifically to each display device and content type rather than applying universal settings. By analyzing the actual display output and content characteristics, the system determines locally optimized parameters for each specific combination of device and content, achieving both consistency in quality and adaptability to different devices.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically changes display parameters based on content characteristics and device capabilities. By automatically adjusting parameters such as brightness, contrast, and color settings according to the analyzed content and specific display device, the system maintains consistent quality standards while adapting to diverse display technologies and individual device variations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS11943427B2Display modification system and method
Publication Date: 2024.03.26 SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC
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AI summary

A display modification system for use with a display device, including a camera operable to capture images of at least a portion of the display device, an image analysis unit operable to derive the value of one or more parameters associated with the display of images by the display device in dependence upon the captured images, a modification determination unit operable to determine a modification to be applied to a content display process associated with the display device, where the modification includes changes to a content rendering process for generating content to be displayed by the display device and/or one or more display settings associated with the display device, and a modification communication unit operable to transmit information identifying the determined modification to one or both of the display device and a processing device operable to render content for display by the display device.